More Than We Can Handle

by Nicole Geiger

Prayer takes place daily at ABH where we regularly ask for expansion. Sometimes it feels as if we move too slowly, receive little support, and come to work with next to no motivation. It’s difficult to trust that we’re making a difference when forward movement seems scarce. At times we struggle not to doubt God’s calling to ministry in the ways we understand.

Over the last few months, however, we can barely keep up with our own answered prayers! Our Administrative Editor currently has two manuscript drafts waiting in line for her attention. More authors interested in writing training material for pastors are stepping forward. We’re in the beginning stages of working with them as they write books of their own. Our own staff is writing three new books we hope to put out by next year. 

This year we published our first book in quite some time. This book (A Walk with the Wounded) teaches church leaders how to emotionally shepherd their churches. We have already given away hundreds of copies of this book, not only to local churches and individuals in the U.S., but also across the globe! A long-time pastor friend of Fran’s (president of ABH) asked for hundreds of our books to give away at a pastors’ conference in Kenya. We were able to help him print 600 books. What a joy it is to do exactly what we’ve been called to do! 

From the very beginning of ABH, Fran and Howard Joslin felt compelled to provide pastors in rural areas of the world with biblical training material to which they wouldn’t otherwise have access. In recent years, between health struggles and the inability to travel on our usual missions trip to Tanzania, our opportunities to serve as we hoped have been limited. We continued to push forward, trusting in Gods timing, and now we often feel like we can’t quite handle the workload! God provided the staffing we needed, donations to continue work, authors for more content, and the ability to provide pastors with much needed biblical training material. 

Nine months into 2023, we feel blessed and thankful to serve the Lord who provides. We are excited to make new contacts and expand our collection of material. We appreciate everyone who prays with us daily. And we thank the Lord for donations that help provide books to those in need. You are an answer to prayer. 

Would you consider donating to help ABH continue providing books to train rural pastors around the world? Click Here.

Or, would you like to join us in ministry by praying regularly for ABH? Click here for our monthly prayer calendar.